Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Croatia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Johnny Clarke to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Toasters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cluster,
Popol Vuh,
Gang Starr,
Dual Sessions,
Bill Wells,
The Fugs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eddi Front,
kango's stein massive,
Stockholm Monsters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
Thompson Twins,
Blake Baxter,
The Cure,
Arthur Verocai,
Aloha Tigers,
Fat Boys,
Marmalade,
John Holt,
Eric Dolphy,
Mantronix,
Kool Moe Dee,
Byron Stingily,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crooked Eye,
Symarip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boredoms,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Angels of Light,
Johnny Clarke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Reagan Youth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Massinfluence,
Rufus Thomas,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mummies,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Green,
Amon Düül,
Nico,
Soft Machine,
Spoonie Gee,
Danielle Patucci,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fuzztones,
The Selecter,
The Fall,
Icehouse,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.